Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)
Replying to my own post, again...
Just after I sent the last post I realized that I had not done an 'ifup wlan0' after loading the ath5k module. Once I got home I booted up, loaded the module and did 'ifup wlan0'. Unfortunately, it still does not work. I get an error saying the the device wlan0 can not be found. What am I forgetting to do?
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 3:28:18 PM
Subject: Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee
Well, the ath5k module was not being loaded. Unfortunately, even after I run:
modprobe ath5k
I still have no wireless. The module shows as being loaded by lsmod,
but no wireless networks show in wicd. Is there something else that I
need to do after loading the module in order to find my wireless
networks?
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 6:57:29 AM
Subject: Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee
Thanks, Andrei. That did it. I had seen that message and should have thought of that, myself. I now have a fully updated (to Squeeze) eeePC. My only problem now is that I still have no wireless. I installed wicd, but it says that it does not detect any wireless networks. When I boot the eee into eeebuntu 3.0 it finds my wireless and several others without any problems, so the hardware is good and the wireless is there
I then remembered that the wireless was probably not configured, since it did not manage to do the install by wireless. I had to plug in an ethernet cable to install. So I added:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
to my /etc/network/interfaces file and rebooted. Still no wireless detected. I guess the next thing is to make sure that the driver is being loaded. It should be using ath5k. That should have been installed during the installation, even if it didn't use the wireless for the install, but if so, I don't know what else to try in getting the wireless working. I will verify that the next time I boot it up.
If the module is loaded, does anyone have any ideas on what I should try next?
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 12:02:23 AM
Subject: Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee
On Tue,16.Mar.10, 00:36:27, Chance Platt wrote:
> >
> > aptitude install hal udev linux-image-2.6.32-3-686
> >
>
> Your computer has to be running the more current kernel before udev
> updates .. reboot into the newer kernel and finish (aptitude
> full-upgrade).
...but the new kernel won't install.
Because you are installing the kernel in the same run you can force udev
to accept the upgrade by creating a specific file. I don't recall what
file, but it is mentioned in the error message.
Regards,
andrei
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